You may spot a few differences around the forums today! One is the addition of our brand-new, fresh-off-the-presses Sponsor Offers! You’ll find them here: #official-stuff:sponsor-offers

Some forums may start showing their sub-categories as boxes at the top of the forum. We’ll be experimenting with that site-wide, don’t be surprised if things change! You can see an example here in this forum.

You’ll start seeing flair on the avatars of a few people and special titles around the forums!

Gold trophies are MLs, and silver gems are sponsors. If you are an ML, hang tight, we’ll have an announcement about ML forums access and recognition soon. MLs you see now are ML-moderators helping me test the features!

And no, it’s not your imagination, the official changeover hasn’t happened yet. We’ve got a few things to take care of before we flip the switch. Announcements will be made when they’re ready! Soon now, very soon.

ML: Municipal Liaison. We’re basically the people who organize local events like write-ins, kickoff parties, TGIO parties, local donations, regional word wars, and all that stuff. Basically, official volunteers in the regions.